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Young people in Guernsey ard turning Don't forget, there is a first | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
Young people in Guernsey ard turning to alcohol because there's nothing | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
to do. That's the view of some schoolchildren who have takdn part | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
in a survey of more than 600 full`time students. The latdst | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
results from the Education Department show that many are | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
drinking alcohol regularly `nd a significant number are smokhng | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
cigarettes. Mike Wilkins reports Happy relaxing with friends but some | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
young people are consuming `lcohol, cigarettes and drugs on a rdgular | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
basis. When asked, almost h`lf of those surveyed said they'd had an | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
alcoholic drink in the past seven days. Almost a quarter of students | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
smoke cigarettes, many opting for cheap products. And more th`n a | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
quarter had tried cannabis. Some told me today that they drank | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
alcohol because there was a lack of things to do. I do a lot of sport, | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
personally, so I always havd something to do. But even if the | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
cinema was upgraded, it there for kids to do. The new skate p`rk is | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
excellent for teenage boys but there's nothing there for ghrls | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
When we want to socialise wd just want to sit and chat and socialise | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
with friends we don't see ott of school, and the only time wd can do | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
that is at a party when there is drinking involved, and therd's not | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
really anywhere than the be`ch we can go in the summer. There's | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
nowhere else in winter wherd we can socialise. We've already sedn the | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
students themselves, we are surprised at the levels of `lcohol. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
We need to address that with a strategy. Similarly with tobacco | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
education. We saw a quarter of those young people who smoked had taken it | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
up since they had joined thd post`16 establishment. It should be noted | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
that there were many positives in the survey but two glaring hssues | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
are that cigarettes and alcohol remain a problem that won't go away. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Well, Guernsey's government does have a drugs and alcohol strategy. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Earlier, I asked the person in charge if it's working. Acttally, we | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
were quite encouraged by sole of the post`16 survey. It showed that | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
cannabis use is only by 9% of young people, which we feel is extremely | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
encouraging. We still know we have a way to go, but we are getting the | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
information that we need to young people about misusing alcohol. How | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
it can affect not only their health but also their families and | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
relationships. There are just two candidates vying to be Guernsey s | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
next Chief Minister. At close of nominations this evening, Ddputy | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Allister Langlois and Jonathan Le Tocq were the only two names in the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
hat. The election will be hdld at a special States sitting next | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Wednesday. Meanwhile, about 85% of people who could have voted in last | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
night's St Helier by`elections didn't. Both deputies`elect, Nick Le | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Cornu and Sam Mezec, stood on a mandate of electoral reform and won | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
their seats with just a couple of hundred votes. They'll have the same | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
powers in the assembly and salary as Jersey's Chief Minister. Sole say | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
that's not right. We've tridd, and the two candidates who are coming in | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
as deputies, they have tried to get more equality in terms of how votes | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
are distributed between constituencies. Obviously it's been | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
very difficult to get that, because there are certain vested interests | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
who don't wish to willing crush their power. No, it's not rhght but | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
how to get from saying it's not right to actually changing ht is | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
proving very difficult. Unelployment in Guernsey has fallen. At the end | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
of February, 443 people werd looking for work. That's a drop of 22 on | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
January, but four more than at the same time last year. 20 people were | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
registered as unemployed in Alderney. What would you sax if your | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
four`year`old came home frol school with this? It's a booklet to help | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
parents explain issues surrounding sex and relationships to thdir | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
children. The pamphlet is produced by a Jersey charity and somd 10 000 | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
copies have been given to primary school and even pre`school children | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
in the island. As you can ilagine, it's created quite a stir, `s Emma | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Chambers reports. These children could be... Bullies? And who else? | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
Strangers. Talking to your eight`year`old son about sensitive | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
issues such as staying safe online, puberty and sex can be diffhcult, | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
but not for Ally. She says ht's been made easier because of this book | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
called A Parent's Toolkit. Ht advises parents on how to ddal with | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
those awkward questions. I found he has opened up a lot more since we've | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
had this book. He's asked md questions, where as before hf I | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
broached the subject he would be embarrassed. When we sat down | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
together he saw we were both embarrassed, and the book hdlped us | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
look at it together. Although it's helped many it has also caused | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
upset. Not about what's in them but how the books were received by | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
parents. 10,000 copies have been given out across Jersey in schools | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
and nurseries. Many of them being handed directly to children as young | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
as four and five, like Sandra's With my eldest I don't mind, because | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
they know so much. But with the youngest, I believe the teacher | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
should... Not put it in an envelope, but as we pick up the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
children then handed to us `nd we got the option to pick it up or not. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
I find it very disturbing for little ones. The charity which makds the | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
book says it didn't want to cause offence. It's a shame that ht has | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
been given directly to the children. The book itself is quite a | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
nice book in the fact it's got cartoons and everything. Hopefully | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
it wouldn't have caused too much distress. Obviously, it sparked off | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
some discussions with children and parents. We are very sorry hf | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
parents have taken offence to it. The help and advice this frde book | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
gives may have been overshadowed by the handling of it. Acet hopes it | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
will help more parents like Ally and is in talks of supplying thd book to | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
mums and dads in Guernsey too. In sport, there were mixed fortunes | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
for the Channel Islands cricket teams on the opening day of the | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
World Division Five tournamdnt in Malaysia. Jersey started with a 66 | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
run victory over Nigeria. Mdanwhile, Guernsey started with a narrow | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
33`run defeat to Cayman Isl`nds The top two teams at the end of the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
tournament will be promoted. Tomorrow, Guernsey face Nigdria and | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
Jersey take on Tanzania. One more day rather cloudy skies and | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
for the weekend we are in for retreat, because the sunshine is | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
back out. It will probably last for much of the weekend and into next | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
week. A lot of cloud around at first tomorrow morning. It comes `n | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
overnight to produce some lhght rain by the morning. Clouding ovdr in the | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
second half of the night and not as cold as it has been. Winds from the | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
south`west. Tomorrow, we have a great start with some patchx, light | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
rain, until around the end of the morning and then things start to | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
improve. The improvement coling from the North first. Winds becoling | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
northerly and light and a temperature of 11. It looks pretty | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
good into the weekend, both Saturday and Sunday are fine and dry with | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
plenty of sunshine. In a second the United Kingdom forecast. From us, | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
it's good night. outlook for London. Temperatures | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
stay like this. Hello, after the teenage tantrums of | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
the last couple of months, the weather is going to move into more | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
sedate middle age will stop maybe tonight is the midlife crisis | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
because it is still likely -- middle age. Breezy and cloudy for most will | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
stop but it will not be cold, but wet, particularly across Cumbria. | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
The railway -- the rain is reluctant to move from Northern Ireland, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Scotland, increasingly wet across Wales later. More patchy. West | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
England, the Midlands and East of the Pennines, temperatures no lower | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
than 10 | :08:12. | :08:12. |